The first test was to be the following evening, when a family dinner was scheduled. While her father was off on another preaching tour, her mother was invited. She wished Amy could come, she missed her.
After much discussion with Mary they had agreed on a dress for the evening. Mary referred to it as a skater dress. It was very, very short, and very flared, but at least the top covered her breasts. Sarah reasoned that her legs would be under the table for most of the evening, so being so short was less of an issue. Putting on a pair of high heels made her legs look impossibly long, but worse they seemed to make her push her bottom out and her chest forward. Well, she wouldn't be standing for long, she hoped.
Mary beamed with happiness. "Miss you look really fabulous!" Sarah still wasn't so sure but was a little mollified by Mary's praise.
Sarah had just made her way downstairs when her mother arrived.
"Sarah!" she said as she clutched her in a tight hug. "My goodness, that dress is so beautiful on you!" but holding her close, she whispered "It's a good job your father can't see you in it, though on the other hand it'd be funny watching him biting his tongue, not being able to say anything in Fitzpatrick's home."
They were called into the dining room where the rest of the company was standing around with glasses of champagne. When they entered, they all turned to her and Mr Fitzpatrick held out his hands in welcome.
"Here's to the two Stevens ladies, their beauty will light up the room!"
Both the mother and daughter blushed and hid their faces behind their glasses of champagne. However, it was with some consternation that she saw Simon's cousin, Joseph, amongst the gathering.
When it came to take their places at the dining table, Sarah found herself at the end of the table, and sitting next to her, cousin Joseph. His close proximity made her feel both nervous and excited and she willed her fast-beating heart to slow. The table was huge and her mother opposite was not only far away, but obscured by a floral arrangement. Being at the end of the table only left her Joseph to talk to. He made some small talk with her, asking if she was settling in and so on, but then turned to his right to talk to another guest, leaving Sarah to her own thoughts.
The starter course had arrived, and Joseph turned to her and asked if she liked the scallops, but at the same time putting his hand on her bare thigh. Sarah's eyes opened wide in shock, but she had enough presence of mind to put he fork down and reach under the table and remove his hand from her leg.
However, as soon as she'd taken up her fork once again, Joseph again put his hand on her thigh. Sarah didn't want to make a fuss and someone would notice if her hand kept disappearing under the table, so she was forced to let him leave his hand there.
She rushed to finish her starter so that she could have both hands free. She was almost finished when she felt him start to caress her thigh. She put down her fork and put her hand over his, trying to stop him. But he was just too strong! She was fighting a losing battle, and when one of the staff came to take her plate she had to raise her hands above the table giving Joseph free rein to caress her thigh.
Each pass of his hand seemed to reach higher. "He shouldn't be doing this!" thought Sarah. "Joseph, I'm engaged to be married!" she hissed at him as quietly as she could.
"I know, Sarah, but you're enjoying it, aren't you?"
"No, I'm not!" but she was forcing herself not to open her legs for him.
Little by little, his hand went higher and higher until his fingers were tracing the edge of her thong. She was still forcing her legs together to prevent his access, but she was becoming increasingly aroused.
She didn't know whether to be relieved or disappointed that his fingers left the edge of her panties when the main course arrived. Her emotions were in turmoil, and it hadn't help that she hadn't seen Amy in so long, she missed their intimacy.
She was still eating when she realised that Joseph had finished, and his hand was once again under the table and under her dress. He briefly skated along the edge of her panties, only lightly touching the sides of her pussy lips. It was becoming increasingly difficult to keep her legs closed. "Oh, why had God given her such a responsive body?" it was so difficult to resist.
The she felt his fingers leave her panties and move further up to hip, the very flared skirt of the dress making it easy for him. She felt him start to pull her panties down! "Surely he can't mean to take them off me at the dinner table!" she thought.
But he did, he really did. He kept tugging them lower and lower, until he could get them no further.
It was then that something completely unexpected happened. Without conscious volition, Sarah found herself lifting her bottom from the seat so that Joseph could take them all the way off! She was mortified, she couldn't understand why she'd done it!
Joseph took full advantage and pushed them down past her knees, when they fell around her ankles. Sarah was blushing furiously, her only other thought was that if another guest dropped something and bent down to pick it up, they'd see her panties around her ankles. So, she dropped her napkin to the floor, stepped out of her panties and gathered them up in the napkin. While she could put the napkin back on the table she could do nothing but ball her panties up in her hand, as she had no pockets!
Joseph knew what was happening and reached across to her lap, saying, "Give them to me, I'll put them in my jacket pocket" Sarah reddened but passed them to him, but before putting them in his pocket, he held his closed hand up to his nose, opened his hand a little and took a deep breath.
Sarah wanted to sink into a hole in the ground. She knew that her panties were not only damp but fragrant with her arousal, and that he'd know he'd got to her.
Again, his hand went under the table but this time he went straight for her pussy. Sarah gave up the fight and let her legs relax to allow him to touch her there. However, he went further and pushed one leg away from him with the back of his hand and pulled the other toward him, opening her up to him completely. She did nothing to stop him.
For the rest of the main course, he teased her unmercifully touching her gently, with feather light touches that did little but keep her on edge, with her body looking for more. With the arrival of desert, his hand left her pussy and gripped the hem of her dress and started to pull it backward. Once again, Sarah found herself raising her bottom so that Joseph could pull her skirt out from underneath her. The contact between her bare bottom and the leather of the seat sent a shock through her system. Joseph continued to tease her and more than once, Sarah found herself thrusting her hips to try and get the contact she craved. She was wet. Very wet. And while she appreciated that her dress wouldn't be stained she was fairly certain the chair seat would be.
Eventually, dinner was finished, and the guests stood up. Sarah glanced down and indeed there was a damp patch on her chair. Joseph saw it too and knocked the remains of his glass of water over the seat. A maid immediately came to wipe up the spillage but it had served its purpose in disguising the evidence of her arousal. However, she was very much aware that she was naked under a scandalously short dress and that she was sure she could feel her vaginal secretions starting to run down the inside of her thighs. She'd just die if anyone noticed.
Her mother came round the table. "Sarah! You look very red in the face, are you alright?"
"I just feel very hot, Mum, maybe I had too much champagne."
"Would you like me to escort you outside, Sarah, to take in a little of the cool evening air?" asked Joseph.
Sarah didn't trust Joseph for one minute to be alone with her. Or trust herself, she reluctantly admitted.
"No, thank you, Joseph, I'm not feeling too well, I think I'll go straight up to my room."
"Would you like me to come with you, Sarah," asked her Mum
"No, you stay and enjoy yourself, Mum, I'll have Mary help me."
"Mary?"
"Mary's my maid, mum."
Mrs Stevens raised her eyebrows but said nothing. It seemed as if her daughter was becoming to the manor born.
Once in her room, Mary magically appeared. "Oh, Miss, why are you back up so early?"
"Oh, Mary, I feel as if I'm about to burst!"
"Oh Miss! Would you like me to help with your tensions?"